Grandma’s Larder

Primrose

Oh I thoroughly approve of en-suites being adjacent to the bedroom, rather than at the opposite end of living areas. One violent attack of food poisoning convinced me that the closer, the better !!


Yes I know my grandmother also disapproved of having an internal toilet fitted on the grounds that "it was unhygienic". She'd got so used to having the privy outside that it never fased her, and she would often still use it in winter and in the pouring rain, rather than go upstairs and do it in comfort.

VfM4meplse

Primrose wrote: »

My dad somehow found the money to buy one of the very early fridges after that Incident ! :rotfl:

Necessity is the mother...

Floss

My grandparents had a pantry in their first floor flat that was at the top of their back stairs, with 2 outside walls & a north-facing window. It had a tiled floor & shelves, I only really remember the bottles of pop bought in for the grandchildren

Despite staying more with my grandma, I have no idea if she had a pantry and/or larder... probably as it was a pre-war council house with outside loo & coal shed. I know the kitchen was small & sparse compared to our mid-1960s built home, which had a makeshift pantry in the passage into the integral garage.

Our 1930s home has a makeshift pantry under the stairs, which actually could do with some reorganisation and a stock take:)

sillyvixen

My mum was a (just) post war baby and when she was 4 the family moved from my great grandparents house into a new build council house. That house had a pantry with flag stone floor, a full length marble shelf and a butler's sink .. this room was the same size as the bathroom upstairs, it was huge! Having said that my nan must have been chuffed to bits with a bathroom - my great grandparents still had a tin bath in f rount of the fire and outside loo untill they moved to a bungalow in the 70's.

I loved that pantry - there would always be a tin of treats when we went to visit and an invertation to choose somthing from it.